Pitcher, confidential clerk in the office of Harvey Maxwell, broker, allowed a look of mild interest and surprise to visit his usually expressionless countenance when his employer briskly entered at half past nine in company with his young lady stenographer. With a snappy Good-morning, Pitcher, Maxwell dashed at his desk as though he were intending to leap over it, and then plunged into the great heap of letters and telegrams waiting there for him. Hullo, Frodo my lad So all this feasting is in your honour, I hear I hope you enjoyed yourself? He lived alone, as Bilbo had done but he had a good many friends, especially among the younger hobbits mostly descendants of the Old Took who had as children been fond of Bilbo and often in and out of Bag End Folco Boffin and Fredegar Bolger were two of these but his closest friends were Peregrin Took usually called Pippin, and Merry Brandybuck his real name was Meriadoc, but that was seldom remembered Frodo went tramping all over the Shire with them but more often he wandered by himself, and to the amazement of sensible folk he was sometimes seen far from home walking in the hills…
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